Gillespie's Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Gillespie's Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Our party may have swung too far right at various times.— Ed Gillespie
When you try to be everything to everyone, you accomplish being nothing to anyone— Bonnie Gillespie
Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.— Dizzy Gillespie
I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.— Craig Gillespie
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!— Dizzy Gillespie
I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.— Ed Gillespie
It's true, we are a highly professional force and we can produce highly lethal fighting forces, but I defy you to find more dedicated humanitarians or better friends when the chips are down.— Ken Gillespie
Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.— Aaron Gillespie
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.— Dizzy Gillespie
I had agreed with her that I should start collecting the Dial records featuring Bird, Max Roach, Al Haig, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie and others who she said were going to be the 'masters.' Each payday I kept out enough money to pay my own way at Mother's, and spent the rest on records and books. Mother— Maya Angelou
I get starstruck really easily. I love music so much - it sounds so silly to say that - so if I'm playing a festival and somebody I love, like [Primal Scream's] Bobby Gillespie, is there in the backstage area, I'm like, "Wow this is amazing! There they are!"— Dee Dee Ramone
the key to settling into a peaceful place is all about taming reaction.— Spike Gillespie
You don't have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don't have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don't have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don't even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.— Aaron Gillespie
If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.— Aaron Gillespie
I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.— Ed Gillespie
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure ... but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.— Tim Gillespie
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.— Dizzy Gillespie
We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.— Ed Gillespie
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.— Karin Gillespie
War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.— Ken Gillespie
For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable, proclaimed the dour scholars of the philosophical schools, that the Colosseum would become their chief temple and the fortunes of gladiators would be watched more closely than the rise and fall of nations.— Donna Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But— Mitch Albom
Her spirit rose with the horns and she was seized suddenly with a fierce love of all this country. She felt her mind a great wing stretched out protectively over the land.— Donna Gillespie
Gillespie called the plan "REDMAP," an acronym for the Redistricting Majority Project. To implement it, he took over the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a nonprofit group that had previously functioned as a catchall bank account for corporations interested in influencing state laws. All he needed was enough money to put REDMAP into action.— Jane Mayer
The apostle only commands that each action and ceremony of God's worship be decently and orderly performed, but gives us no leave to excogitate [contrive] or devise new ceremonies, which have not been instituted before. He has spoken in that chapter of assembling in the church, prophesying and preaching, praying and praising there. Now let all these things, and every other action of God's worship, ceremonies and all, be done decently and in order.— George Gillespie
...dismayed that I would pass up true adventure for the sake of a fake one I'd never get around to inventing.— Hollis Gillespie
I love the juxtaposition of these words. I love the incongruity, the oddity, the very strangeness of their nearness. Dizzy Gillespie. Pakistan. What does one have to with another?— Maliha Masood
Great coaches are great humanitarians. They really care for the athlete as people first and athletes second. This is paramount in gaining respect.— Gordie Gillespie
Bop is at the end of the road. Now everybody wants dance music.— Dizzy Gillespie
I was lying in bed on a Saturday morning, reading the paper, when my phone went. The caller was Rangers director, Jack Gillespie, and he offered me the manager's job at Ibrox. I was flattered but declined with thanks. John Greig was a good friend of mine and I had no intention of being involved in ousting him.— Alex Ferguson
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.— Elmore Leonard
Some days you get up and put the horn to your chops and it sounds pretty good and you win. Some days you try and nothing works and the horn wins. This goes on and on and then you die and the horn wins.— Dizzy Gillespie
So, don't feel deprived. You are not giving up anything. You are simply stopping a dangerous and harmful addiction. It really is that simple to break an addiction. If you have the right attitude, staying sugar-free becomes a lot easier than you could possibly imagine.— David Gillespie
You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.— Dizzy Gillespie
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The brain is only three pounds of blood, dream, and electricity, and yet from that mortal stew come Beethoven's sonatas. Dizzie Gillespie's jazz. Audrey Hepburn's wish to spend the last month of her life in Somalia, saving children.— Diane Ackerman
How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.— Dizzy Gillespie
If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don't eat. If your parents split up, if your parents hit you, if your mom tells you you're a piece of trash. If you got in a car crash and half your face is gone - wake up in the morning and give yourself a shot. Do it. Not for music, not for any reason other than the fact that you are alive and you were given the grace to wake up another day. So do it, man. Just freaking get out there and try.— Aaron Gillespie
The Australian Army is a highly respected National institution because of its people. It's all about the people. If we communicate, and leverage off all in our organisation, not just our senior officers, our IQ will be awesome. Then there will be no job which is beyond us.— Ken Gillespie
Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.— Ed Gillespie
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.— Bill Wyman
here is nothing which any way pertains to the the worship of God left to the determination of human laws, besides the mere circumstances, which neither have any holiness in them, forasmuch as they have no other use and praise in sacred than which have in civil things, nor yet were particularly determinable in Scripture.— George Gillespie
Everybody is talking and everybody is trying to block things out, but eventually you just yell, "Action!," everybody starts moving, the camera starts going, and you get a take.— Craig Gillespie
I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.— Aaron Gillespie
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.— Ed Gillespie
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.— Jamie Cullum
FALSE EQUIVALENCY— E. Landon Hobgood
If you compare the Koch brothers to George Soros and you compare MSNBC to FOX News then why not compare the NAACP to the Ku Klux Klan, George Washington to King George, Abraham Lincoln to Jefferson Davis, Barack Obama to Vladimir Putin;
If you compare the Democratic party to the Republican party then why not compare Citizens United with Brown versus Board of Education, Churchill to Mussolini, Martin Luther King to George Wallace;
If you compare Liberals to Conservatives then why not compare Boxing to Cage Fighting, Mozart to Salieri, Edward Kennedy Ellington to Lawrence Welk, Three Card Monty to Inside Trading, John Birks Gillespie to Cab Callaway;
If you are mentally slothful enough to engage in false equivalency, why not go all the way? Pretend that ignorance equates with knowledge, Science with Mythology and empathy with apathy?
I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.— Ed Gillespie
Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.— Gordie Gillespie
How quick, brutal, and fragile is life. You are born, you live a few years in wild hope, then you are dragged back into the night. You might have breathed on a little longer, had you not dared think yourself a human creature instead of an engine of muscle and bone.— Donna Gillespie
I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.— Dizzy Gillespie
If obedience is the chief thing good stood upon, why are not other laws and statutes urged as strictly as those which concern ceremonies?— George Gillespie
Many critics always saw and heard that my style comes from Roy Eldridge, which is true. But for many things, not only how to play the trumpet but the way to choose the notes, how to play them and how to phrase all of them, I took that from Sweets [Edison]. He really brought something new to the trumpet.— Dizzy Gillespie
I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.— Dizzy Gillespie
Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.— Dizzy Gillespie
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your magnificent indifference.— Dizzy Gillespie
Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.— Dizzy Gillespie
Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.— Ken Gillespie
Every November on National Adoption Day, courts set aside time to finalize adoptions from foster care that might otherwise be delayed for months, and communities celebrate adoption with retreats, proclamations, and other events. National Adoption Day was started in 2000 and has grown each year. In 2004, courts and community organizations finalized the adoptions of more than 3,400 children from foster care as part of 200 National Adoption Day events in 37 states.— Natalie Nichols Gillespie
I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.— Dizzy Gillespie
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.— George Gillespie
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.— George Gillespie
I wish that people would take the time to show people that they are important in their lives, either at work, or at home. Too many times people take others for granted, and I think that needs to change. People are so much nicer and willing to help you if you use those two little words that mean so much ... 'Thank You!'— Gina Gillespie
How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.— George Gillespie
Politics swings like a pendulum.— Ed Gillespie
There have been two great revelations in my life: The first was bepop, the second was homeopathy.— Dizzy Gillespie
I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.— Dizzy Gillespie
I always try to teach by example and not force my ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.— Dizzy Gillespie
If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.— Carolyn See
I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.— Ray Brown
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The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings ... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie ... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.— Al Jarreau
Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.— George Gillespie
It was happening. At least in that little section of the salon, women were connecting and doing what women knew how to do, show compassion, nurturing - helping someone fit in.— Terri Gillespie
Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.— Ed Gillespie
I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?'— Donald Byrd
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.— Dizzy Gillespie
Any time I see someone succeed I am happy, for it affirms my belief that I live in a world where success is possible.— Bonnie Gillespie
Where there's no mutual respect, there's trouble!— Dizzy Gillespie
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.— Ken Gillespie
There were many reasons why I chose to stay silent about my past for so long, mostly fear and shame. Now im older and wiser.Now I understand that I should never have to live in fear of another human being, and if I do, that's their shame, not mine.— Gabriella Gillespie
If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.— Ed Gillespie
People like passion in politics.— Ed Gillespie
I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops - he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead.— Miles Davis
![Gillespie's Sayings By Miles Davis: I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to](https://www.greatsayings.net/images/gillespies-sayings-by-miles-davis-1204689.jpg "Gillespie's Sayings By Miles Davis: I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to")
I am not against all wars-just whichever is current.— Ken Gillespie
Shira turned and blew kisses toward her clients who had pressed their faces against the salon window like children in a candy store and she their Willy Wonka of beauty.— Terri Gillespie
These algorithms, which I'll call public relevance algorithms, are-by the very same mathematical procedures-producing and certifying knowledge. The algorithmic assessment of information, then, represents a particular knowledge logic, one built on specific presumptions about what knowledge is and how one should identify its most relevant components. That we are now turning to algorithms to identify what we need to know is as momentous as having relied on credentialed experts, the scientific method, common sense, or the word of God.— Tarleton Gillespie
They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.— Dizzy Gillespie
I love when there's an obstacle to overcome, even for the audience to actually empathize with that character. I find that interesting, and then, how to work around that and make them relatable. That's something that you have to dig into the moments and into the performances and see how to play those situations that make them relatable.— Craig Gillespie
I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it's supposed to be.— Dizzy Gillespie
I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.— Ed Gillespie
God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.— Aaron Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie recorded it with Charlie Parker in an— Ted Gioia
influential 1945 track (incorporating a much imitated intro - perhaps initially
intended as a parody of Rachmaninoff 's Prelude in C-Sharp Minor
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.— Jack Kerouac
I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.— Aaron Gillespie
Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.— Dizzy Gillespie
The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.— Ed Gillespie
So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.— Ed Gillespie
Mutual respect is so important because as soon as it disappears in relations between you and the next person, there's trouble.— Dizzy Gillespie
Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.— Dizzy Gillespie
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.— Ed Gillespie
Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?— Donna Gillespie
